Joyce Greenhough is the daughter of Percy Greenhough and Emily Dunn.

Joyce was born in 1927 in Walsall, Staffordshire.

Joyce married Stephen Dover in 1948 in Cannock, Staffordshire.

She had the following children from her marriage to Stephen Dover:

- Stephanie Dover	born in 1949 at Ulverston.
- Terence P. Dover	born in 1952 at Ulverston.